it first and last It is comparable to gold A Medicine for the Plague Take a fair onion make a hole in it and take out the Inner core then take Dragon water triacle and pepper and bruise them a little and put them into the onion and rost the onion in the Embers and after bruise the onion and strain it with Malmesey and give it to the patient to drink And if it be taken before the heart is infected it s a present Remedy Probat For the canker in the body Take the roots of Dragon and cut them in small pieces and dry them into powder and seethe it in white wine very well and let the âick drink thereof three dayes together fasting and he shall be whole For the Canker Take an handful of woodbind and an handful of Sage stamp and strain them and seethe them to the third part with hony and Allome till it be thick and wash the Canker therewith To cure a Canker in the mouth Take Rock allome and burn it and make it into fine powder and scrape some Bole-armoniake into iâ and when you use it put drops of wine vineger unto it aâd anoint the place For the canker in the mouth the best way Take two âennyworth of pure coral asmuch as a wall-nut of roch allome and half asmuch of white Copperas and a pint of strong white wine vineger woodbind leaves and sage leaves of each ten one spoonful of bay-salt half a spoonful of English hony and a branch of Rosemary boil all together till half be wasted then strain and keep it in a glasse this water will remedy it in twice dressing When you wash your mouth put a little in a sawcer and âash the Canker therewith but let none go down A water to cure a Fistula Take Bolearmoniake Roman Vitriol allome of each two ounces boil these in eight pound of water till half be consumed with this you may wash any Fistula A diet drink for a Fistula Take Egrimony selfâheaâ sanicle Ladies Mantle Madder Hempe Mugwort Fetherfew wilde tansie brier tops one handâul Lignum giâacum lib. 1. Corticis ejusdem two ounces Inâuse al in twelve pound of water twelve hours then boil them to the third part post concoctionem ad Mellis optimi lib. 1. or cola A Medicine most excellent for the spitting of blood Take a raw Eggshell and cast away the inner skin thereof thân dry it in such order as may be finely powdered of which powder take two drams with three ounces of plantain water well mixed together Or if you will have this remedy more effectual then give it five days together in the morning two drams of the same powder dissâlved in this Syrup following Take Syrupi de rosis siccis Syrup de portulaca Syrup de Myrtis one ounce Misce. In like manner it s a fore Reââedy aswell in the cure as in the preservation for the patient to chew in his mouth every morning fasting one scruple of Rubarbe torrified For any sore which is poisoned with a contrary and unproper salve Make a posset of white wine and âay thâ curde thereof to the sore and it will take aâ the malice away so that another salve maâ work Also take new milk from the Cow and wash the sore therewith and it will do the like For any that is wounded to keep it from ranckling Take the juice of parsly and drink it and it shall not ranckle Te heal an Impostume in the body Dioscorides saith that Mintes stamped and drunk with Ale destroyeth all Impostumes in the body An ale salve to cure most sores Take a quart of the first running of Alewort boil it to a pint then put into it two ounces of fresh unsalted butter and so boil them to the thickness of hony And if it chance the sore to have dead flesh put in the salve an half peny worth of Allome Probat To remove pain and exceeding dolour in an Impostume or wound Apply the whites of Eggs or the whites and yelks together being well wrought together with oil of roses or else take the crums of wheat bread steeped in hot water and pressed out one pound yelks of Eggs in number two For Hemerods that come forth Take Wormwood and drink it fasting and make a plaster thereof and mingle with burnt garlick to powder and the sick shall be whole by Gods grace FINIS
Sugar beaten sâall as he weight of the receit amounteth unto till it thick like a Syrup then put to this Syrup as it cooleth all your powder well stirâing and incorporating the same altogether and so keep it for your use Pâohatum est Take the lungs of a Fox dryed the juice of Liquerice Maidenhair Fennel-seed of âach â like four ounces make it in Sugar sodden in water as much as will suffice some make it with the juice of Myrts and then it is comfortable for the stomack this is a present remedy for a Consumption For the Phlegm and Cough Take an handful of Coltfoot of Liquerice shaved and bruised two ounces an handful of Maidenhair of Anniseed three ounces Lât it be boiled in three pound of fouâtain âr Spring water till half be consumed strain it and then put into it three ounces of white Sugar Give thereof five spoonfuls for the space of eight dayes warmed For a Consumption Take Syrup of Limons half dram Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrup of Hyssop alike one ounce Syrup of Liquerice one ounce Floris Sulphuris half a scruple Spirit of the seed of Fennel four drops and mix it all together For the Consumption Take a handful of Rosemary tops a handful of red Sage a handful of Horehound a handful of Plantaine leaves a handful of Hyssope a handful of winter Savory a pint of English hony a pint of runing water half a pound of blew Figs half a pound of Raisins of the Sun a stick of Liquerice boil all these in a new pipkin with a cover to it cut them small and put them into the pipkin and let it boil softly unâil it be half consumed then take and strain it through a cloth very well then give the party four spoonfuls morning and evening Another excellent for the same Take a quarter of pure red Rosewater put it in a pewter platter or bason set it over a Chasfing dish of coales take clean Anniseeds and bruise them a little in a Mortar put thereof into your Rosewater a good handful and put also of sliced Liquerice bruised and tore in ãâã three or four stick and as much of Par ãâã roots the pith taken out bruised and sliced ãâã put therein then last put in a good spoonâââ of the tender crops of Hysâope so let them ãâã from a quart to a pint still bruising them ãâã a spoon as they boil and when it is ââfficient boiled strain it into a glass and take ââereof warm in the evening a pretty draught ãâã two hours after and before meat fast two ãâã use this it hath done wonders c. âhe Sides Remedies for their distempers âeuâisie A thing most certain to remedy the greatest pleurisie possible TAke the delicatest Apple that may be had make an hole therein pull out the ãâã if it may be not breaking the Apple ãâã which hole put in OlibanuÌ of the best the ââantity of three or four grains and cover the ãâã of the Apple then put the Apple into ãâã embers there to soken till it be tender but it must not burn then break the apple ãâã the Olibanum into four or five pieces and give it the patient to eat and forthwith ãâã Impostume of the pleurisie breaketh and ãâã patient recovereth Pro certo oyl of scorâons anoynted often to the griefs vatet âwrodâ See that you apply withal thin Cakes made with the said oyl and the fleying ãâã dryest hot one after another one at once and anointing the grief before any cake ãâã laid on with the said oyl hot and thus the ãâã cakes oyl and hot ashes breaketh the Impostume of the Pleurisie For to cure an Iâpostume which groweth in the ãâã side of the ribes of the side when no other Meâicâââ will cure the same Take Pipins and bruse them and strayâ the juice thereof to the quantity of a prettâ draught and put thereto a dram of the juice ãâã the herb called bearfoot and give it to thâ grieved to drink and it shall presently helâ him Another good Medicine Take Aqua vitae and Capons grease of eacâ of them a prety quantity and boil them together then take a little black wool and ãâã it therein and lay it hot as may be suffered to the stomack of the party grieved and it will ease him very spedily To destroy an Impostume and anâ swelling Take the roots of Hollihock sod till they be very soft and the water halfe consumed and more then put into the same water the flower of Linseed fenugreck a like much seethe it until the water doe rope then put the said âollihock roots to it being well pounded and add a handfull of barly meal and fry them all âith boars grease and if you will you may âdd sheepes suet apply it hot Probatum est A Catâplasme Take the flowers of Camomil Melilote of âach one handful of the leaves of Rue Marârow Nepthe of each one pugil of the seeds ãâã Annise two drams of the Laurel berries âhree ounces boil it moderately pound it ãâã asmuch hoây as is sufficient and apply it Another Stamp Mallowes roots well sodden then ãâã butter hony and pigeons dung very well âixt et fiet For the stitch Anoint the place with oil of Melilot and apâly Melilot plaister to the place upon a piece of Leather and change it once a week An experienced good Medicine for a pleurisie Take Brooklime sheeps suet and a little fair âunning water and fry them together in a fryâng pan and make a plaister thereof and lay it âhe side of the patient and it will draw forth âll the corruption This hath been proved The Heart Remedies for its Distempers Remedies for weakness and feebleness of the heart GIve him that hath a feeble heart and ready to saint either for fever or extream heaâ the wâight of a French crown of Trochisk of Camhire with wine of Pomegranates and lay upon his left side Limon dipped in water of roses and vineger In stead of these Trâhisks ye may use a Electuary called Diamargariton frigidum every morning a lozenge And it is good to give him for the same feeblenes conserve of Roses violets water lilies mingled together and after to drink water of Sorrel and to smell Roses water lilies rose-water and vineger Other whiles and most often debility of heart chanceth of a cold and drie cause and is without fever with great fear and heaviness the remedy whereof is this Take an Electuary called Diamoschum and use every morning a Lozeng and drink after it a litâle good wine or Bugloss water and anoint the brest with oil of Spikenard Moreover use once in a week before meat the weight of half a crown of good triackle or Mithridate so it be well tempered with a little white wine and with a few maces For beating or trembling of the heart If it be without offence Take two drams ãâã the third part of Elect. de gemmis then ãâã two or three ounces of Bugloss and âawme mixed
together For the same It is good to drink every morning three âânces of water of Bugloss wherein hath âeen sodden cloves And it is good to drink in a Morning four âunces of Julep made of half a pound of âawm water and three ounces of Sugar For the same It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces ãâã water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden âoves And it is good to drink in a morning ãâã ounces of Juâep made of half a pound of âarm water and three ounces of Sugar The âonfection of Diajacinthy is singular and exââllent for trembling of the heart but it is for âoble men not for poor folk âor ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms Take unset leeks one handful chopped small ââd frie it with butter and bay salt and lay it ãâã the stomack upon a napkin Take a pinte of white wine English liquerice ãâã sugar boil it together in a pot close stoped take it fastingâ To help a mad body Take the Flowers of Rose-mary of Burragâ and of the roots of Buglosse of each a pound Saââron two drams of Quinces four ounces ãâã the best white wine a quart mix them together let them stand a day put them over thâ head fifteen days in an Horsmixon the mouââ of the glass not covered quite then distil it Then take of it first and last a dram at a timâ It is a precious secret it helpeth the treâbling of the heart For them that swound or are faint-hearted Take Rosemary Sage Betony and Marjerom of each an handful seethe them in a galloâ of fair water till a quart be consumed theâ take away the herbs and put to the said wateâ a pinte of good hony then scum it well theâ put in an ounce of Staechades tied in a fair linnen cloth Let it seethe a little then takâ out the Staechades and add an ounce of Cinnamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmeggs and asmuch in Ginger in powder drink it warm thrice every day six or seven dayes ââfiet A potion for sainting Take of the confection of Alchermes two drams of garden blew violet water and excellent red rose water of each two ounces and Syrup of violets two ounces and an half and Syrup of Lymons one ounce mingle them well together and take hereof four or five spoonfuls at a time when you see eause or when you please The Stomack Remedies for all pains of the stomack For weakness of the Stomack TAke Pilulae Stomachiae two or three hours before meat more or lesse according to ãâã quantitie of the fulness of the stomack ãâã after give him every morning two hours ãâã ore meat and one hour after supper at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga ãâã ga or another called Diacinimum which ãâã consume ventosities and with their comâââtable heat drive away the cold and windy ââmplexion of the stomack For windiness of the stomack Take in a morning two hours before meat a ââzenge of Aromaticum rosat and if ye have ãâã aching stomack and cold take every morn ãâã a Lozenge of Dianisâ or Diacinimum and drink after it a spoonful of wine A present remedy for pain and ach in the stomack Maiden-hair bruised plaistered and laid to ãâã stomack sanat To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret Take every night last three drams of ãâã For a windie and cold stomack Take Aromaticum Garyophillat one ounce Electuar de aromatibus one ounceâ Et Diattrion piperion one ounce Mix it together and take it first and last â the quantity of three Nut kârnels For pain of the stomack Take two drams of Diacinnaâon of Dianist ãâã Diagalanga and drink it with a little gooâ wine an hour or two before meat drink a little Castor with good wine Another Drink two hours before meat three or ãâã ounces of the decoction of Mintes Anniââ seeds cummin and fine frankincense Also drink an Electuary caâled Arcuâaticum whereof receive one Lozenge every mârninâ fasting To comfort the stomack after vomiting It is good to give unto the patient everâ morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood ãâã Mintes instead of which it is convenient ãâã take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum or Diâgalanga For the same Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonââl of the Juice of mintes or half a spoonful ãâã Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves ãâã d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with ãâã ine two hours before meat ân excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages Take half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn dram of good Rubarb infused a night in wa ãâã of Endive with a little spikenard anâ an âunce of Syrup of violets mix all these things âith three ounces of Ptisan or whay and âârink it warm A Medicine for winde in the stomack Take a spoonful of hony and two spoonââls of rosewater and set them upon a Chaffing ãâã sh of coales and as the scum ariseth take it âith a feather till be clear Then take it off ââe fire then take a groaâs weight of long âepper asmuch of white asmuch of black ââd asmuch of cummin seed asmuch of ginger ââd beat all together in a Mortar not very ãâã all and put them into a box Then put in ãâã ony and rosewater unto them and mix them âogether with a knife and eat them after dinâer asmuch as a pease and you may keep it as ââng as you will and ever as it dryeth put âhereto more hony clarified with rose water To clear the stomack Take stale Ale and boil it and put it two branches of Hyssop to boil with it and drinâ first and last A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whicâ be brought low to get them a stomack Take Vine leaves and stamp them aââ strain them and put in Sugar to the juice aââ Cinnamon powder with Sippets of mancheâ boil them as sorrel sops eat them with chicken or what you will It is excellent ãâã a fever or other sicknesses To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj ãâã of the weâkness of the stomack pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually ââde of on ounce of Sugar and one ounce of Cinnamoâ finely powdred both and then mixed togegether And this Pulvis Ducis being mingled the quantitie of one dram with half a pint oâ Aqua vitae well tempered together and thrââ pints of rosewater and so let run twice oâ thrice through an Hyppocrates bagg anâ thereof take oft-times in the week one spoonful in the morning fasting especially in winteâ time is excellent good for a bad stomack of cold cause A drink for a bad stomack Brew Beer or Ale and when you tunne iâ before it work take a pound of wormwood and asmuch of the roots of red docks the pi ãâã taken out and washed and put them in a bagâ with a
and temper it with small Ale and use to drink it every morning fasting and it shall break the stone When you have used this drink eight or nine times together then put a little Galbanum into the end of your yard and that will draw out the stone An oyntment for the back if the stone come painfully from you Take red dock roots and May butter and beat them together in a morter very well and fry a little in a fryingpan and then strayn them and anoynt the back A Pultis to cause the stone to slip when it s broken Make a Pultis of oatmeal and white wine vinegar and after its made put to it a convenient quantity of Aqua composita and apply it to the place where you feel the stone to lie and it will cause the stone to slip forward or downward A medicine to avoid the stone in the bladder Take a pinte of white wine and put it in a pan and boil it and put thereto asmuch powdâr of Nutmegs and drink it with Ale evening and morning and you shall be whole Probat For the stone Take Coliander seed Parsley seed Broom seed Allexander seed the seed of Asnen keyes Hasel nut keyes red bramble berries Ivy berries of each of them alike quantitie and dry them beat them to fine powder altogether and searce them fine Let the partie make a posser of white wine as clear as may be and put in asmuch of this powder as will go into an hasel nutshel and take it three or four mornings together fasting and if you please you may seethe your powder in your posset drink and so take it probat Also the Syrup of Althea commonly called the Syrup of Mallowes and put in posset drink and drink it and it will cause water presently Probat A Soveraign Medicine for them that cannot pisse well proved by the Lady of Northumberland Take Alexander seeds and Parsly seed of each alike much and beat them tâgether in a Mortar and seethe it in Malmesey and seethe withall unset time and parsly Leaves and seethe it from a pottle to a quart and strain it drink it warm To make one make water presently Take the inner skin or pill oâ the Gizem âf a Dove dry it to powder and give it to drink with white wine I think the skin of one Gizern is scarce enough To procure a man to pisse well Take the kernels of Ash keyes dryed and made into fine powder and drink a scruple of the powder fasting in seven spoonfuls of white wine warm To procure urine that is stopped Take Borrage rooâs mundified and sliced and boil them in clarified posset Ale made with Ale and white wine and drink a good draught thereof with a little Sugar at any time in your infirmity Probat A special receipt to help sharpness of urine Make Posset drink of a pint of milk and a pint of Ale then take three roots of Housleek and pick the leaves stamp and strain them and put the juice into the posset drink Let it boil a walm or two then drink it warm at any time of the day morning and evening but not at meales and as oft as you think good An Injection for burning of urine Take of fountain water four pound Passul exacinat five ounces foliorum Plan-taginis five handful foliorum fragariae Poligoni rosarum one pulgil quatuor seminum frigid majorum mundatorum one ounce Aluminis three ounces boil them and add two pound of the decoction Mellis rosati colati six ounces I doubt the Allume is of the most for smarting which if it be somewhat lesâe may be put in next the Mel rosarum I think the lesse to be with the most but that is a good wholsome cleansing healing and mitigating thing so that there can be no hurt with it but the waste of it A powder for the heat of urine Take Seminis Portulacâ one ounce Endiviâ Seminis Lactucae Scariolae acetosae one half dram Seminum communium frigidor majorum one ounce Papaveris albi half one ounce Sacchari ad duplum fâat traâea And a little before dinner and supper eat a spoonful of this powder for this purpose but if the patient have a shaking ague withall then the coldness of the powder is apt to draw on the ãâã and to make his fits come often as hath been proved Fâr them which make very foul or red water Take the juice of Ribwort and drink it warm with Ale once or twice a day also for man that pisseth blood seethe garlick in water till two parts be wasted and let him drink âf that water and he shall be whole To provoke urine and a asswage the belly Dry Pellitory into powder and drink a ââoonful of the powder in white wine first and âast and it shall asswage you you may take âeslâ sometimes as now and then half a spoonful with a Messe of pottage or broth A receipt for the stone Drink the distilled water of bean fâowers at ââl times when you feel heat in your back âhich will bring away all gravell and loose âones it s not good to use it too often lest ââ should break the stones too fast â good Medicine for one that cannot pisse by reason of the stone Take Snayls that carry shells a good handââ lay them in the fire and they will creep âur of their shells then take the shels and beat âhem to powder and let the party drink the âowder in some posset ale or such like drink For the stone Take white Saxifrage roots Parsly Pierstone the Kernels of Ashen keyes of each an handful of Ringus roots two handfulâ bruise them well in a Mortar and then boil them with siâ gallons of Ale or beerwort so long as wort is usually boiled then put all into a vâssel and when it shall be stale enough drink every morning next your heart half an ale pint This being very often or every day taken you shalâ never be troubled with the stone though you had been much troubled with it before A receipt for the stone used by Sir Trever Williams Take the quantity of a Walnut of the best Leaven and half so much of bay salt put them together in a pinte of milk and stir them with a spoon until they dissolve Then let them stand covered all night then strain it and drink it in the morning fast one hour after and for that space keep your self walking To prevent the stone Take a peny pot worth of white wine and put into it the quantity of a small nut of the finest castle sope scraped very small and then warm it a little by the fire and then drink it and walk after it one hour take this two dayes in a week or in a moneth as you finde your self by your water To make a water for the stone In the Moneth of May or in the beginning of June when oxen go to grasse you shall take of their dung not too frâsh nor too
it up also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suâfet in the stomack well proved Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssoâ half an handful of time half a handful of Sagâ six good crops of red Mints and as many ãâã penyrial half a handful of Horeâound six crop of Marjerom two ounces of Liquerice weââ bruised asmuch Anniseed and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the saiâ Herbs wringing asunder and put them into thâ Ale in a brasse pot well covered and close anâ let them stand till they begin to boil theâ take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that therâ cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made put more therâto half an handful of red Fennel half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce ãâã Maces A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable Take fine turpentine one pound of oil of bay four ounces oâ galbanum four ounces of guââ arabick four ounces of pure Frankincense ãâã Miârh of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes ãâã each four ounces of Galââgale zedoary oâ Gingeâ of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoliââ minor of Nutmeggs of Cinnamon of each on dram of Musk and Ambergrease of each onâ dram all these bâat together pour upon ãâã pints of the best Aqua vitae distill it secunduâ arâem The vertues are thâse it breaketh and diâsolve ân the stâne in the kidneys causeth thâ patient to pisse which otherwise is letted ãâã a piece of flesh it helpeth consumption sciâtica or ach in the head fowl scurse wounds iâ the head It helpeth the plurifie Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swelâng in any part of the body the coldness in ââe head it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold Take a Borrage more and boil him in half pinte of wine and half a pint of rosewater ãâã drunk fasting in the morning It com ãâã the heart and brain it healeth the âemorie and wit it purgeth the evil blood ââcovereth Phrensiness ãâã making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof Take a handful of the flowers of Dogsâângue of St. Iohn Worât the flowers a handââl white wine somewhat more then a quarter ãâã a pint of gum Elemie one ounce five penyâorth of saffron one penyworth of venice âurpântine one ounce of Candied oil or ãâã oil half a pinte If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused ãâã the oil then boil it in the white wine by ââemselves and then boil the gum Elemie in ââe oil by it self and then clarifie it and cast âway the dreggs and then boil it again all toâether and last of all put in the saffron and ãâã Turpentine when you are ready to take ãâã boiling a little and so clarifie it again ând when it is almost cold put it into a glass to ââe The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in sallet ââil for a year or less The gum Elemie will ââil in the oil a quarter of an hour and after ãâã boiling it together it will be a quarter of a ãâã hour the flowers are to be strained out âodden in wine or the oil The vertues of it are as followeth It will cure all diseases coming of cold eiâ pains or achs in the head or the deaâness iâ the eare the same Ballam ãâã waâmed and anointing the place gâieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto And for tâe ears to lip â little black wool in the same Balsom and ãâã then thârewith This is good for the gâavâ and pain in making of ãâã and the Coâ lick to take the same in a little Mutâoâ broath to the quantity of a great bâan and drink it every morâing fasting and anâ in thâ place grieved Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt and for the mother Anoinâ the leât side therewith well warââd and iâ will dissolve all hardness cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyeâ and bladder It câreth all aches in what parâ of the body soever rubbing the place grieveâ with a Cloath first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam being made warm and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly It hath more vertues then I have here written To make the most eâdellent water of Treacle or Mithridate which is a most precious remedie against all outward and inward poysons or pestilence Take of excellent venice Triacle or Mithridate one pound which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circulaâion And in a circulating vâssâl the fire all that while be verâ soft and slender which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick and distill the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by it self to be drank in such times of need as is asoresaid To draw out another Liquor from the sââis whence this Liquor was distilled superââctum Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over then set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distill And receive the said liquor into a bladder which set under the nose oâ the Aleâbick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts and they shall be preserved from the Contagion as aforesaid To make Cinnamon milk or liquor after another sort most precious for a restorative Take the waters of Bugloss Borrage Balme and of the lesser Cenâaury of each a pound and an half into the which put of Cinnamon welâ choyce of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. dayes And after that distill it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair which clear liquor keep apart but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it selâ for it is most excellent of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful or a spoonful and a half it doth wonderfully strengthen them A ba'm for a wound Take good white wine one pinte oil olive half a pinte St. Iohns
in three pounds of white wine and one pound of red rose water boil it till come almost to a Syrup this Julep is so acceptable to nature that it supplyeth the use of meat and drink To make Triacle water Take three pints of Carduus water and put into it an ounce of hartshorn and boil it till it câme to a quart then take gentian roots roots Elicampane roots Cyperus roots Rinde of Pomegranates of each a ounce beat them into grosse powder of the herbs oâ Carduus and Angelica one ounce of the flowers of rosemary Marigold Bur rage Bugloss of each of them half an ounce also one pound of Venice Triacle dissolved into six pints of whiâe wine and three pints of red rose water infuse all these things xxiiii hours together this still in a glasse still or another still that stills with water The vertue of this Triacâe water Take a spoonful or two at a time upon finding the stomack ill or upon fears or to drive away any thing from the heart to restore the spirits and speech and sowning and âainting ten grains in a spoonful of posset drink made of Ale going to bed is good against fears For a Surfet Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons of the Lees of Sack two quarts a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds bruise them and put them together and distill the water then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon a dozen bruised Cloves one Race of sliced Ginger a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed 2. quarts of thunder baggs or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off Then sun it a Moneth and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer take of these a spoonful at a time an hour after a second and an hour after a third To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Impostumes and for sickness in mans body Take Hyssop Rosemary Violet Leaves Vervine Herb Iohn Mouseare Plantain Avence Sage and fetherfew of each an handful and wash them clean and put them into a Mortar and bruise them a little and put them into an earthen pot that was never occupied And put therein a gallon of good white wine and so let it stand all night covered and in the morning boil it till it come to a pottle and let it run through a hair sieve put it into a clean vessel covered and let the sick use these first and last nine dayes at evening warm and at morning cold every day and night half a pint and he shall be whole by the grace oâ God A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doctârs foâ a man past cure so judged Take Hermodactils two ounces Sarsaparillae four of sassafras 2. ounces Sene Alexandriae four ounces Liquerice one ounce Anniseeds one ounce long pepper half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious one great handful of Egrimony half asmuch of Betonie half a handful of water Cresses and brook lime one great handful of scurvy grasse of the Sea two great handfuls of good Nâtimegs one ounce Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bagg and hanged in a barrel with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up and let it stand and settle eight dayes then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it laââeâh your bâead must be Bakers bread with Coriander and Anniseeds your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun and your diet drink your dinner dry rosted Veal Hen Chicken Mutton or rabbet your supper as your breakfast or some small repast of dry rosted ãâã or Rabber continue this six weeks and beware of cold and if you keep your chamber have merry Company this Diet will cure any desperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be past câre Probat A Medicine for the sweat Take three pints of Ale one ounce of Sugar six Sage leaves boil all these together and scum them clean And put thârein a crâst of white bread or a few crums and seethe then a penâworth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot or in a pâwter pot and drink nine or ten âpoonfuls at your pleasure the twenty four hours and sometime drink Ale bloâd warm with a penywâight of powder imperial at a time Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel your self sick or faint at your heart Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the sâdden Ale aforesaid or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours Also eat no manner of spices but Mace onely and drink no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours take no manner of cold nor take not too many oâ clothes but competent To make the Queens preservative Take half an ounce of Triacle powder imperial two peny worth of powder Sedwall a peny worth mingle all these together and put it into a box and use it as aforesaid when need requireth and old people may eat the qâantity of a Nut to preserve them fasting in the morning For them that are poisoned a remedy Take the powder of Betony put in wine a âpoonfâl of powder to a draught of wine a ãâã boiled by the fire being drunk doth help them presently that have drunk poison before and whoso drink it in a morning fasting no poison can hurt him A Medicine diminishing all kinde of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for recovery of health Take of the best Triacle adding thereto a few drops of oleum Vitrioli and let it stand till thou use it then any lying sick not unto death give the weight of a French crown of the same Medicine and if he be not over weak give a little more Let him drink it hot with wine in the morning fasting four hours before he eat washing out of the cup also with wine which being also taken and well covered in his bed and wrapped about his bead and all covered onely his mouth there let him sweat four hours asmuch as its possible and not sleep in any wise these four hours Then change the sheetes and let them be very dry and warm then let him lie and not sweat before he rise or eat the space of three hours then let him eat some good thing and drink good old wine after his meat Then afterward the Physician may use either Medicine both purgative or corroborative as the necessity and occasion requireth This Medicine dimânisheth the cause of all sickness and prepareth the body in the way of health speedily and never fails the Physitian See that he sweat plentifully without sudden cold and use good diet afterward An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpentâne Take of clear Turpentine eighteen ounces
stoned with a spoonfull of red ãâã chopped small Apply it plasterwise two houres before the fit For a burning fever a medicine approved ââue Take six spoonfulls of fair running water and put it into a fair glass or other vessel anâ put thereto one spoonful of bay salt ãâã picked from filth and let the salt melt ãâã the said water then put to it a pretty quantity of Saffron finely beaten and let the patient drink thereof in the beginning of his hearâ and it will lay the heat and in short spacâ drive away the fever and the sooner if thâ siek be made soluble or loose bellyed and thiâ approved to be true Another for a burning fever Take a handful of Câllendine a handful of bay salt an hard âgge and a raw egge a râsted onion and a raw oniân stamped altogether and make two plasters and binde them to the soles of your feet and with two plasters you shall have remedy A medicine to precure sleep in a fever Take of the seeds of white pâppie two spoonfuls of the white seeds of Lâttice being tâe best one spoonful make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified Mâce ale warm and it will cause quiet sleep the ordinary use is two small spoonfuls to bedward Probat For the fever in Angine and for bloody matter Seeth parsly in white milk and pât the âot milk to cold butter and it will be a posset you must use that posset ale first and last a week together It cuâeth also such as âake bloody water To make a breath to cool one in a fever Taâe fair water and put thâreto French barly boyl until the watâr be red thân pour the red water from it and put into barly the hot water some Liquorice some cooling herb as Violet leaves and strawbeâry leaves and put in some Lettice seeds and let it boil until the barly be very soât then strayn the barly from it and let it cool and when it 's cold put in some vinegar and sugar and so drink it you must put in your vinegar and Sugar as you drink it For an Ague of long continuance Take of Seâa two ounces of Polypody oâ the oak half an ounce Bay-berries half an ouâce of Fenel seeds half an ounce of Aniseeds half an ounce of Liquerice half an ounce one red Dock root the pith taken ouâ of scurvy grass one handful and a half bruise all this together in a mortar then put them in a Linnen bag and hang them in a gallon of nâw ale three dayes then drink thereof near a pint at eight in the morning fasting and at four in the afternoon till all be out A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomack by vomit Take a dram of pure Tobaâco and open the the Leaâ if it be in roul and stâep the leaves of the said dram all night in half a pinte oâ white wine then strayn it and drink it next your heart and âast two hours after and you shal have youâ stomack well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler This will our Engââsh garden Tobacco do Probatum also either steeped green but especially the dry Leaves of it as with esseth Mr. Parkinsons Herbal For an Ague if it be given before the first fit Take Dandelion stamp and strayn it and ouâ Triacle or Mithridate to the juice and drink it on your good dayes two or three dayes as your good dayes do fall out and it will hâlp for it hath been proved many âimes An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit either Quotidian or tertian Take a good spoonful of Bay salt asmuch ârankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigneâs of an âgge of the root of white Briony and half an handful of Smalledge let the Briony and Smalledge be both pounded together and put with them your bay salt and Frankincense and lay it to both your wrestâ of your arms a hand breadth so cold as may be two hours before the course of your fit being spread a good thickneââ on two faiâ clothes Let it be unremoved twentie four hours then renew it This helped a dozen at one time in my Lord Harringtous house A plaster to put away the new Ague Take the middle bark of a walnut tree well steepâd in rose vinâgar thân stamp it with a spoânful of bay salt and one spoonful of Olibanum and lay it on a cloth spread well and thick to the left hand wrest leâinâ it ly there four and twenty hours Probatum What to give one in the fever or Ague Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromacââ mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses and with dragon water or water of Carduââ Benedictus two ounces with one ounce of Syrup of Limons and take of this mixture one spoonful in your extremity at a time Leâ blod if need require the sixth day of youâ sickness in the Hepatica vein six or seveâ ounces For a tertian Ague a soveraign drink proved Take vervine and Mouseare and Camomil one handful boyl them in a quart of Ale to a pint and strayn it into a pot and when your cold fit is upon your drink a good draught of it and in two drinkings it will help Prebatum For an ague Juice of Wormwood and sugar doth help the ague in short time A special medicine for the Ague Drink at the coming of the cold fit the distilled watâr of Germander and it helpeth surely To cure a fever Take spring water and boyl it either in silver or other clean skillet or in a pewter pot set in hot water and let it onely boil and no more and then cool it And let the patient make it his drink untill the fever be gone and if the party have a choice palate put in a little white sugarcandy to take away the taste of the water A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy and to put away the malum habitum corporis Prâbatum Take seven gallons of good middle ale wort and put it into a pan with seven handfus of Scurvy grass or for want thereof take three handfuls of pepper three handfuls of water Cresses and three handfulls of Brooklime boyl these being fair washed and pulled in pieces in the water until six gallons remain then order it as you would order beer and tunne it up in a barrel having ready a fine linnen bag wherein put a stone or plum with three ounces of Sena and one ounce of fine Rubarbe cut in small slices with the powder of grains long pepper anniseeds fennel seeds and Liquorice scraped and bruised flat one half ounce of spicknard and galingal vera beaten small one two ounces of the wood and rinde of pure sassafras half an ounce or one ounce if the wood be not vâry good cut in smal pieces then sow them all in the bag and fasten a long double strong thread to the bagge and hang it so in
every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Cloves Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Maces Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Anniseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Carrawayseeds Of every of them a like quantity that is to say a dram weight of each of them Then take Sage Mintes roses pellitory rosemary of every of them gather an handful and most of the roses rosemary wilde time Camomil Lavender pânyroyal Then break the spice small and bruise the Herbs and put all the wine and let it stand twelve hours and stir it divers times together in the wine and still it by a Limbeck and keep the first water by it sâlf for it is the best and keep the sâcond by it self but not sâ good as the first and use this as you have need thereof A water called the mother of the bawme Take Tuâpenâine six pounds olibanum two ounce Aloes citrine cubâbs Mastick Cloves galingale Cinnamon Nutmegs of everich one ounce gum of the fig-âree and of the juice of each three ounces then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glasâ wâich you must joyn to the capitel with hot flower ashes and whites of eggs so that no breath come out and let it still with a slow fire ând the first water will be white and clear the second like hony and the third like bawm which you shal receive into three receptories These be of vertue as they be in order they will burn in fire and a drop will turn a vessel of milk as Bawm it self will two drops thereof powred into the ears will take away the great noise that some have in their headâ likewise in the eyes will heal all watrie and red eyes and other diseases of the face it câreth any impostume green wounds and ulcers scabs and all other superfluous humours and the tooth-ach ye any fisâula or canker in nine dayes also the noâi me tangerea the small pox if you wash the places therewith it is good for all old hurts and for dry blowes of staves or stones It healâth strengtheneth and all other things rectifieth the âiâewes it is so hot and penetrative that it will run through your head without grief to you It healeth all painâ of the Leggs and joints with all other diseases that come of cold and it is as precious as bawm it self To make the water of life Take Balm leaves and stalkes Burnet leaves and flowers a handful of Rosemary tormentil Leaves and roots rosa solis a handful red roses a handful Carnations a handful Hyssop a handful and âsmuch of time red stringes tâat grow upon saverie one handful red Fennel Leaves and roots red mintes a handful pât all these Herbs in a great pot of earth glassed And put thereto asmuch white wine as will cover the herbs and let them soak therein eight or nine dayes Then take an ounce of Cinnamon asmuch ginger asmuch of Nuâmeggs Cloves and saâiron a little a quantity of Anniseeds of great raisins one pound half a pound of dates the hinder part of a good old Conny a good fleshie running Capon the red flesh with the sinewes of a legg of mutton four young pigeons a dozen of Larkes the yelks of twelve Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sops in Muskadel or bastard âs much as sufficeth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and put thereto Mithridate two or three ounces or else asmuch perfect Triacle and distill it with a moderate fire And keep the first water by it self and the second alone and where there cometh no more water with strings then take away the Limbeck and put into the more wine upon the same stuff and still it again and you shall have another good water and ãâã shall remain good in the first ingredience of this water You must keep this waâer in a double glass warily for it is restorative of principal Members and defendeth against all pestilential diseases and against the palsie dropsie spleen yellow or black Jaundise worms agues and sweatings and pestilential sorrowes melancholy and strengâhneth and fortiâieth the spirits and strings of the brain the heart and Stomack and the Liver taking a spoonful or two or three at a time by it self or with Ale or wine and Sugar it helpeth digestion and breaketh winde stoppeth lask and bindeth not To make water of Rosemary Take Rosemary flowers and in the midst of May ere the sun arise in the morning take the Rosemary and strip the Leaves from the stalks and take four or five great roots of Elecampane and an handful or two of Sage and beat the Rosemary the roots and Sage together in a stone mortar till they be very small âhân take it up and take three ounces of Cubebs and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat the spices in a mortar of brasse every spice by it self then take all the Herbs and all the spices and put them in four or six gallons of white wine then put all these spices herbs and wine in an earthen pot and stop the pot close so that no air come thereto with a cover made of earth and set the same pot in the ground by the space of fifteen dayes then take it and still it in a stillatory of tin otherwise called a Limbeck with a soft fire A notable water of great vertue Take Fennel Eyebright Endive Betony Silermontain Rosemary rue Maidenhair of each an handful and let all these steep in good white wine xxiiii hours and afterward distill all together and keep the first water as silver the second as gold and the third as bawm This will heal all swelling and running of the ears and falling of the hairs off the head and browes it healeth all diseases of the eyes and killeth the worms in the teeth and maketh the breath sweet It breaketh the impostume in the head if it be put into the ears with bumbast a cloth steeped therein and laid upon the stomack easeth the pains of the same and likewise mollifieth the hardness of the spleen Also it taketh away all spots of the face if you mingle a little thereof with white wine and put thereto a little Roch Allom. An excellent water against the Colick the mother and all pains in the belly Take Cinnamon two drams Cloves two drams galls one dram grains two drams Nutmeggs one dram beat all these to grosse powâer and put them in a stillatory covered over âith Muscadel or good Malmesy and let it âtand so xxiiii hours then still it with a slow fâre and you shall have a very sweet and wholsome water which you shall use thus Take â cup of pleasant and strong wine and pour five or six drops of this water into it and let the patient drink